random picture of the moment: i love that new puppy smell.
(cosmo (left, blue) and nellie (right, red), 8 weeks old (dob: 5/5/05))
Read More......Thursday, June 30, 2005
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
random picture of the moment: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Please observe a moment of silence for the bottles we have lost on this day.
just as a sad aside, there was wine and other spirits on the truck that were lost as well, not just beer.
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
random picture of the moment: the all important. mr. moo and mr. e seem to be eyeing it. mr. m is taking a nap. 
random trivia
THINGS YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW, BUT HAVE FORGOTTEN
- Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
- The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
- The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle".
- A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
- Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
- 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
- 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
- The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.
- On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.
- Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
- Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
- Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).
- Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
- Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
- Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
- Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time .. hence, multi-tasking was invented.
- Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
- There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
- The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!
- There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
- A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
- The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
- If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar (good to know.)
- By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)
- The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb (sign of a true civilized society ... not.)
- The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
- Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples! (Guess what I'm buying on my next trip to the grocery store?)
- Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
- The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher
- Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
- Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it
Saturday, June 25, 2005
guess where my frustrated ass is?
things appear to have been fucky from lunchtime, and now, they seem to be calming down.
i don't fucking get it. i realize that there is a certain aura that IS people have, as whenever we are around, whatever problem there is seems to go away.
but this is driving me up a fucking wall.
well, to quote Eric Cartman:
"SCREW YOU GUYS! I'm going home"
Friday, June 24, 2005
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!
this is driving me FUCKING NUTS
i have a piece of advice for you all. one that i feel everyone should heed. it's a lesson i am currently emboiled in and i'm ready to kill as a result of it.
if you are going to have anything done that changes the way your network connection is handled, will be affected, supposedly going to be improved.
FOR THE LOVE OF WHATEVER GOD YOU BELIEVE IN
DON'T DO IT ON A FUCKING FRIDAY AFTERNOON!
DON'T EVEN LET THEM OFFER IT AS AN OPTION!
friday morning, fine.
but any time after lunch, tell them to take a long walk off a short pier.
a VERY long walk.
this is just another chapter in our on-going saga of moving the phones from the standard analog phone (what you plug into the wall at home currently) to the new VoIP system.
now, i realize, our network is fucked up. it's in pretty bad shape and is nothing more than a patchwork of crap. but we are trying hard with the new phone system to fix that problem, and to a degree (greater or lesser, i don't know) we have done so. new switches, snappy network speed (up from a whopping 10mb to 100mb that most people have in their offices these days)
anyways, part of that is moving our various external connections (T1) to other routers in an attempt to consolidate things, but this afternoon, they made a few changes that SHOULD have made things better.
in part, they did. browsing the web is now a little snappier. that was supposed to help (in part) with the whole phone system and the various ports in the backs of routers.
shit, i have to call someone.
ok, well the good news is that it looks as tho the phone side of things is working. i just called someone and while i was on the phone with him, i lost a network connection twice. outlook is freaking out and i'm really glad that i have frozen dinners here. a frozen dinner. and if i didn't, RB had one so i could have swiped that as i am now getting rather hungry.
anyways, back the point at hand. whatever happened has fucked up things interally.
every few minutes, we'll lose our connection to something (altho for the moment, outlook hasn't freaked out in a few mins) internally which fucks with the routing and access to various servers (like citrix, exchange) goes away and then a minute or two later, is restored.
needless to say, it's been more than mildly frustrating for me as i'm stuck here not knowing what's (oh, there it goes, outlook can't see the server) going on. by this time, CD should be home and be connected to the network in an attempt to fix whatever it is he botched in the first place.
so anyways, my point is this: don't let ANYONE fuck with your network on friday afternoon. because they sure as hell aren't thinking about whether it's going to work or not. they are working with the assumption they know what they are doing and it is going to work out of the box.
trust me.
IT WON'T WORK.
not at first at any rate, but by the time anyone realizes what happened, they are half in the bag (which i would very much like to be right now, i don't know if i'll be able to even buy beer tonight).
or lost on their way (now it's up) home, or any other (now it's down) position where they have no ability to do any work.
and tonight i was planning on doing phase one of "The Great Molius Coke Challenge"
the other week, i saw that Coke has this thing called 'Coke Zero' (outlook down)
i'm not sure what it is, but i guess it bills itself as a 0 calorie (outlook up)/0 carb/0 whatever soda.
well, plain diet coke is that too. so WHAT exactly is the difference? there are some difference chemicals in the ingredients list, but for the most part, they are identical. both use sweet and low to sweeten, so why have 2 sodas that appear to be the same?
so i decided (outlook up, connection down) that i would see what the big difference was. i bought a bottle of the following:
Classic Coke (the benchmark)
Diet Coke
Diet Coke with Splenda
Coke Zero
i'll pour a little into a glass and sample. i'll post round 1 results afterwards. round 2 will prolly happen on sunday.
well, it's looking as tho someone is actually going to have to come out here to take a look at things. which sucks even more cuz now my chances of getting beer are even lower.
fuck.
enuff for now.
fucking nutjobs
M sent me a link to an article in the Globe about bringing your pet to work and i started following the links and looking thru the author's blog when i found this.
i have never cared for PETA or their tactics, but this is something i don't think many of us have realized about this "organization".
read that article and then read this blog entry. i found it rather enlightening.
kudos to Gina Spadafori and thank you.
Thursday, June 23, 2005
random picture of the moment - driving into work (earlier than usual) this morning. whee...
that was rude
one of the normal sounds i hear in the morning (weekdays) is around 720 or so, the crazy-neighbor-lady who lives next door, goes to work. the door in my bedroom shares the stairway we use to get in and out. it took a little while, but a lot of the time, i just ignore it and doze off until my alarm rudely awakens me.
this morning was no different, i hear her open the door, close it, and head down the stairs. i start the doze off process and right after she steps out and i hear the door close, i hear what sounds like a gunshot, echoing thru my neighborhood.
after going over to my window (open due to nice temperatures) to attempt to determine where the sound came from, i start hearing the sounds of a contractor banging away at something. so all it was, apparently, is said contractor dropping something heavy (big stone, etc) into an empty metal dumpster.
i realize that they like to get started early, but it's just plain rude, to make such a loud noise that early in the morning. at least wait until 800. what if i had an infant that i had just put down? do you really think that they would sleep thru that? well, i spose i don't know the answer, but i'm sure someone who has had kids can answer that better than i, but my guess would be they would be mighty unhappy. maybe there should be a town ordinance that says contractors are not allowed to make loud noises (hammering nails, cutting boards, cutting down trees, dropping large debris into empty metal dumpsters, etc) until after 800am. of course, now that it is 800am, i'm not hearing the contractors making noise...
figures.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Sunday, June 19, 2005
(not so) random picture of the moment. i mowed my lawn before taking the previous picture, but it doesn't look like it so here is a different angle. i generally have to mow it 2-3 times a week now.
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